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New Catweasel board announced
« on: October 27, 2002, 09:44:49 AM »
Individual Computers are announcing the Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper.

This is a PCI and a Zorro card which will ultimately let your computer access more than 1100 different disk formats (of course including 880kB/1.76MB Amiga floppies) with a normal PC floppy drive!
It also has two 9-pin digital Amiga gameports and an A4000 keyboard port.

As if that's not enough, you can also install an on-board C-64 SID chip!

Listed price: 84.90 Euro. SID chip: 20 Euro.
Shipping starts Nov. 25.


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Re: New Catweasel board announced
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2002, 12:17:17 PM »
This seems to be something truly awesome!

Apart from the impressive technical feat, it's got relatively promising commercial potential too. UAE on every platform with PCI slots, Amithlon, heck anyone with the need to read/write something on a crapload of different old floppy formats, using the el-cheapo floppy drive they've already got installed.
Plugging in that nicely cigarette-tar yellowed keyboard with the LED glowing friendly in the caps-lock key and no Windows symbols to some nice modern hardware is tempting too. And the old Wico joysticks... And those old electronic projects that should go in the joyport...

Maybe some musicians who are looking for a SID-station could be interested as well.
 
85 Euro is not too steep either.
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